[ih] Naming and addressing 1971-1989

[Vint Cerf]

once it was concluded that ISO 3166-1 would be used for country codes, I
think Jon simply undertook to operate .us while assaying to find volunteers
to manage other cctlds. Ruediger Volk was drafter to run .de from University
of (Dortmund???) for example, if memory serves (and often doesn't at my
advanced age...). John Klensin was close to a lot of this, I believe. Is he
on the history list?

vint



On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Elizabeth Feinler
<feinler at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Sorry I did not include your name in my blurb.  I was reading Namedroppers
> and email messages, all of which mentioned or came from Mike Karels.  Also,
> he had come to SRI a couple of times in that capacity.  Anyway, I really
> encourage you to write up what you know about the history of BIND, and maybe
> the Nominum folks can take it from where you leave off.  It is quite a story
> how naming and addressing mushroomed into what it is today and its impact on
> commerce and networking.
>
> Craig,
>
> Two things:
>
> I thought the meeting with Mike Corrigan in 1985 was of particular interest
> because it was the meeting at which all the parties agreed to pull together
> and start IETF.  In my opinion that agreement had significant impact on
> development of the Internet, and led to a standards track that is in place
> today.  It perpetuated a really good way of getting things done that had
> started with the network working group (NWG) back in the late 60s.  We could
> have splintered in several directions, but thank heaven we didn't.
>
> As for when did we have country code TLDs?, my recollection was that ISO
> folks decreed that they would mandate naming only to the level of country
> codes; from there on the structure/assignment was the responsibility of each
> country.  I believe it was at that time that Jon asked for .US, I think
> before someone more bureaucratic glombed onto it.  I emphasize that this is
> a recollection - I can't verify it.  Perhaps Joyce Reynolds or some of the
> ISI folks can verify when Jon obtained the country code and what his
> thinking was.  USC-ISI was handling Assigned Numbers and the country code at
> that time.  The NIC took this effort over a couple of years later.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jake
> >> 1985
> >>      was about the core naming issues; naming issues came up in 1986
> only
> >>      regarding creating .NET and how to use .US and were related to
> issues
> >>      of perceived provider requirements)
> >>
> >> Also a quick question folks have been asking me -- when did we have
> country
> >> code TLDs and when did we decide to use the ISO list?   I think we had
> ccTLDs
> >> by late 1985 as .UK was active and Jon P. had assigned .US to himself
> (at
> >> least, that's what I remember).  But I think choosing a list of ccTLDs
> blessed
> >> by ISO was done a bit later.  Yes?
>
>
>
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